I love all animals, specially horses and kitties and this was so sick and cruel, I would like to see these butchers put to hard labor in a prison in Siberia with no coats and no fire.

Pork also in the beef "shipped around the world."

Seems to me, so Muslims need to be calling in a fatwah on these guys -- but it will probably be McDonald´s, instead.

horsemeat...that´s gross and horrible enough! But as a dog lover, I´m going to be sick! Dog meat?! Those poor horses being beaten and starved! I can´t stand it. It just breaks my heart!!! *tears*

I won´t eat horse meat, but it was common in times past. It was fed to our soldiers in WW II. I remember it being available in grocery stores in the´50s.

Before we´re too quick to judge, horses in the USA are sent to Mexico, for cruel slaughter because people here can´t stomach the thought of them being slaughtered (humanely and under FDA control) in the US. The meat is then sent to Canada and worldwide. What frosts governments is that unregulated suppliers are taking profits from the beef suppliers, which in turn isn´t being taxed. The meat misrepresentation in products is a distant, secondary consideration.

I like the solution proposed by #1.

I thought about this article while I was at Publix today, looking down the aisle with all the pet food that contains "meat by-products." You may not care about the ethics of horse meat or the means of slaughtering--but what if it´s from race horses and tainted with a dangerous drug, as the article describes in some cases? Not good for you or your pets.

We haven´t given the cats mystery meat (at least, not to our knowledge) for years and now we start with ourselves. It´s enough to make us go back to a vegetarian menu--or heavily so, at least. And I may end up making my own cat food after this, not forgetting the taurine cats desperately need.

At least now we know what Italian Mafia guys do with the rest of the horse, after they leave the head in someone´s bed.

Fair warning in OP´s comments. I ought not to have even scanned this article, it is just too, too horrible.